Stolen Revolution by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati review – Iran’s recent history explained

This account of the Islamic Republic and its discontents told via six contrasting lives should be required reading

Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates

Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in attempt to widen access to quality fiction

Bill Jordan obituary

Other lives: Social worker and lecturer on social policy

I have found the perfect book group – we discuss problematic text messages

My friends and I were keen to meet regularly, but couldn’t agree on what to read. Then we found an excellent solution, writes Zoe Williams

‘I want to be other people’s cautionary tale’: how do you financially prepare for a parent’s death?

Author Beth Pinsker discusses the documents that matter more than a will – and why so few of us have them

‘Wear something that makes you feel silly!’ Can Austin Kleon’s tips put the spark back in my life?

If you’re in a rut, kids can show you the way out. That’s the latest message from the author of the bestselling Steal Like an Artist. I asked him to help me rediscover my playful, creative side …

A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation?

This clarion call about the impoverishment of children’s lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading

Ruth Artmonsky obituary

Other lives: Co-founder of the psychometric testing consultancy SHL who went to write books about art and design

‘Far right groups prey on it’: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness

A decade after The Lonely City was first published, the writer reflects on what’s changed – and how the feelings that drove them to write their bestseller are key to understanding our turbulent politics

Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?

Our rigid eating habits date to the Industrial Revolution – it’s time to embrace culinary spontaneity

Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war

Visitors flock to Book Arsenal in Ukraine’s capital as wartime writing takes centre stage

Search for lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s book

Mama G wants to dedicate her book, The Proudest Bird in the World, to pair after chance Blackpool Pride encounter

Readers’ top 100 novels of all time

After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped by a new entry at number 1

Move over Middlemarch! Readers’ top 100 novels

After critics and authors picked their top 100 novels of all time, we asked readers to choose their favourites. Thousands of votes came in from around the world ... which books did you choose that were missing from the original list, and what has pushed George Eliot off the top spot?• See the top 100 here

The Guardian view on the UK’s first centre for illustration: visual literacy, and the sheer joy of images, matter

Editorial: A national institution for this overlooked artform shows it is finally getting the recognition it deserves